Inquiry Project:

Sixteen students will be traveling to Xizhou, in Yunnan province. Sixteen students will be staying there for 28 days and research about a topic that we are curious about. After looking through the list of inquiry projects, some seemed to interest me more than others. I narrowed down my choices based on these questions, "what would keep me interested? what are topics that have not been too many times?" After thinking, I narrowed down my top three choices, Linden Family/Centre Story, Government Graffiti: Propaganda Messages in Xizhou, and Farming.

This is Phase 1, where I will be gathering information, posing some questions and laying out a plan for research. In Phase 0, I narrowed down my topic to Government Graffiti and Propaganda Messages in Xizhou.

In Phase 1, I have developed questions that would help guide me in Xizhou, as well as a plan for researching. This is Phase 2, where I will be finding out sources that will help me answer my questions.

This is Phase 3, where I will be storing information I gathered. In section one, I have my background information before I came to Xizhou. Now in Xizhou, I have I will do my 3-5's. They are short interviews (3 to 5 minutes) to find another source in the village. Section three is where I will be storing the information I have gotten from my interviews. And in the last section, I will be answering questions that I came up with in Phase 2 after living and connecting in Xizhou.

About This Learner

Hi, my name is Annie. I'm 13 and this is my 8th year in Shanghai. I'm from Taiwan and lived here ever since I was 5. I have a little sister and a member of a family of four. Microcampus was a wonderful experience and I'm glad I embraced it.